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  • Afterglow
    by Catherine Coulter
    ISBN 0778323676 (0-7783-2367-6)
    Softcover, Harlequin Books

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    What do Chelsea Lattimer and David Winter have in common? Aside from both being single, attractive and successfulabsolutely nothing! She's an outspoken, free-spirited romance novelist. He's a physician, with a blue-blood pedigree and all the proper seriousness of his profession.

    But there is this incredible chemistry that won't go away. And when David decides to mold himself into one of the heroes in Chelsea's novels, they discover they actually do have something very magical in common…. [via]

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  • Anita Blake Vampire Hunter 1: Guilty Pleasures
    by Laurell K. Hamilton, Stacie M. Ritchie, Brett Booth
    ISBN 0785127232 (0-7851-2723-2)
    Hardcover, Marvel Enterprises

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    New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton brings Anita Blake to the world of graphic novels. Anita Blake lives in a world where vampires, zombies and werewolves have been declared legal citizens of the United States. Anita Blake is an "animator" - a profession that involves raising the dead for mourning relatives. But Anita is also known as a fearsome hunter of criminal vampires, and she's often employed to investigate cases that are far too much for conventional police. But as Anita gains the attention of the vampire masters of her hometown of St. Louis, she also risks revealing an intriguing secret about herself - the source of her unusual strength and power. This hardcover edition contains an all-new, original, never-before-published short story by Laurell K Hamilton. [via]

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  • At Home in Mitford
    by Jan Karon
    ISBN 0745926290 (0-7459-2629-0)
    Softcover, David C Cook

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    A story to return to again and again

    It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable.

    Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, wants something more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa who moves in and won't go away. Add an attractive neighbor who begins wearing a path through the hedge. Now, stir in a lovable but unloved by, a mystifying jewel thief, and a secret that's sixty years old.

    Suddenly, Father Tim gets more than he bargained for. And readers get a rich provincial comedy in which mysteries and miracles abound.

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  • Bad Boys Over Easy
    by Erin McCarthy, Jordan Summers, Jen Nicholas
    ISBN 0758208456 (0-7582-0845-6)
    Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp

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    "Fuzzy Logic" by Erin McCarthy: Ashley Andrews has taken "shop till you drop" a little too much to heart, and finds herself facing a massive credit card bill. It seems like the perfect solution to get a part-time job as a Pleasure Party consultant, showing romance-enhancing toys and products to women. Lucas Manning is Ashley's next-door neighbour and her younger brother's best friend. When he accidentally opens a box outside his door addressed to Ashley, he's a little startled to find an entire selection of neon coloured vibrators. By the end of the night, Ashley and Lucas have taken quality assurance to new levels, and Ashley sees the benefit in a man who is full of smart and sexy ideas. "The Cupid Curse" by Jen Nicholas: Val EnTine is a woman cursed. As if it wasn't bad enough that her parents named her after the holiday she was born on, fate made up for it by giving her a non-existent love life. Val decides to throw caution to the wind and call on Cupid for help. So after doing a little research, writing a heartfelt plea to the God of Love for assistance, and waiting around for a bolt of lightning to jump- start her floundering single state, in walks Gldeon. He has the face of an angel, the hands of a piano-playing Beethoven, and the gorgeous brown eyes of melt - in-your-mouth dark chocolate. Unable to stop their growing emotions for each other, Val and Gldeon set off on an adventure that neither of them had planned. This is one couple who learn that life isn't always easy, that love doesn't always make sense, and that sometimes a curse is really a blessing in disguise. "Mesmerized" by Jordan Summers: Amanda Dillon is used to gorgeous men falling at her feet, wooing her, obeying her every command. Of course, it helps that they're hypnotized at the time. Derek Armstrong knows a juicy story when he sees it. And Amanda Dillon is it. He's not going to let the fact that she doesn't grant interviews stand in his way. So what's a star journalist to do? Why, allow her to hypnotize him, of course. A simple plan that should work like a charm, if only he can avoid falling under her hypnotic spell. When the truth is revealed and the spell is broken, will the connection remain? [via]

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  • Bad Boys With Expensive Toys
    by Karen Kelley, Nancy Warren, Maryjanice Davidson
    ISBN 0758205864 (0-7582-0586-4)
    Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp

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    The Fourteen Million-Dollar Poodle - Nancy Warren Labour dispute negotiator Vince Grange has a reputation for being a tough guy. Tough guys hammer out deals, drink beer, and keep their well-muscled, six-foot-four physiques in shape. What they do not do is inherit frou-frou toy poodles named Mimi who only understand French. Good thing Vince was a softy for his late eccentric aunt, and really good thing she left him fourteen million dollars so he can hire a French dog nanny. The World is Too Darned Big - Mary Janice Davidson The name's Dyson. Benjamin Dyson. Genius engineering geek by day and unfortunately, genius engineering geek by night. Ben may work for the CIA, but he's the mild-mannered brainy type who wouldn't know a gun from a gear shift. Enter Tara Marx. She's six feet of big, bad, booty-kicking fearlessness, and she needs Ben on her mission ASAP. Guilty Pleasures - Karen Kelley Computer entrepreneur Alex Cannedy loves women - the way they move, talk, smell...and other things. He'd love to get to show Kagen Yates a good time, but his sister has declared the wealthy designer off-limits. She even makes him pinkie-swear not to so much as wink at the hot babe who's had her heart broken by men just like Alex. But Alex has no idea how his resolve, will be tested. Kagen has plans of her own [via]

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  • A Bend in the River
    by V.S. Naipaul
    ISBN 0783886160 (0-7838-8616-0)
    Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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    Brilliant and terrifying'-Observer I had to be the man who was doing well and more than well, the man whose drab shop concealed some bigger operation that made millions. I had to be the man who had planned it all, who had come to the destroyed town at the bend in the river because he had foreseen the rich future. 'Salim, the narrator, is a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast of Centeral Africa. Salim has left the coast to make his way in the interior, there to take on a small trading shop of this and that, sudries, sold to the natives. The place is "a bend in the river"; it is Africa. The time is post-colonial, the time of Independence. The Europeans have withdrawn or been forced to withdraw and the scene is one of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation, poverty and a lack of prepartion for the modern world they have entered, or partially assumed as a sort of decoration. It is a story of historical upheaval and social breakdown. Naipaul has fashioned a work of intense imaginative force. It is a haunting creation, rich with incident and human bafflement, played out in an immense detail of landscape rendered with a poignant brilliance.'-Elizabeth Hardwick 'Always a master of fictional landscape, Naipaul here shows, in his variety of human examples and in his search for underlying social causes, a Tolstoyan spirit'-John Updike [via]

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  • Bluebeards Eggs
    by Atwood
    ISBN 0771008082 (0-7710-0808-2)
    Hardcover, Random House Inc

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    collectible first edition book [via]

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  • Bookends
    by Jane Green
    ISBN 0767907817 (0-7679-0781-7)
    Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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    On the heels of her national bestsellers Jemima J and Mr. Maybe, British sensation Jane Green delivers a sparkling tale of old friends reunited and old jealousies rekindled.

    Catherine Warner and Simon Nelson are best friends: total opposites, always together, and both unlucky in love. Cath is scatterbrained, messy, andsince she had her heart broken a few years backemotionally closed off. Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy, and desperate for a man of his own. They live in Londons West Hampstead along with their lifelong friends, Josh and Lucy, who are happily married with a devil-spawn child and a terrifying Swedish nanny, Ingrid.

    Alls well (sort of) until the sudden arrival of a college friendthe stunningly beautiful Portia, whos known for breaking hearts. Though theyve grown up and grown apart from Portia, the four friends welcome her back into the fold. But does Portia have a hidden agenda or is she merely looking to reconnect with old friends? Her reappearance soon unleashes a rollicking series of events that tests the foursomes friendships to the limit and leaves them wondering if a happy ending is in store.

    Fortunately, Cath has plenty to take her mind off Portias schemeslike her gutsy decision to leave her job in advertising to fulfill her dream of opening a bookstore. And then theres James, the sexy real-estate agent who keeps dropping by even after the bookstore deal is done. With his irresistible smile and boyish charm could he be the one to melt Caths heart?

    Told with Jane Greens captivating wit and flare, Bookends is above all a story about friendshipits twists, turns and complicationsand how it weathers the challenges of love, ambition, marriage, and, most of all, growing up. Warmhearted, sophisticated, and full of delicious surprises, Bookends is Greens most dazzling novel yet. [via]

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  • Fitzgerald, Penelope: The Bookshop
    The Bookshop
    by Penelope Fitzgerald
    ISBN 0754039102 (0-7540-3910-2)
    Softcover, Thorndike Pr

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  • Lackey, Mercedes: Burning Water
    Burning Water
    by Mercedes Lackey
    ISBN 0765313170 (0-7653-1317-0)
    Softcover, Tor Books

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  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the Americna West
    by Dee Brown
    ISBN 078578876X (0-7857-8876-X)
    Hardcover, Bt Bound

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  • By the Light of a Thousand Stars
    by Jamie Langston Turner
    ISBN 0764221531 (0-7642-2153-1)
    Softcover, Baker Pub Group

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    The Chewnings and the Biddles are neighbors with little in common. As the Biddle household unravels, Catherine is drawn to the peace and joy her neighbors radiate-despite their outward disorderliness. [via]

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  • Lackey, Mercedes: Children of the Night
    Children of the Night
    by Mercedes Lackey
    ISBN 0765313189 (0-7653-1318-9)
    Softcover, St Martins Pr

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  • Contact
    by Carl Sagan
    ISBN 0785787828 (0-7857-8782-8)
    Hardcover, Bt Bound

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    It is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody or something else, this team believes they've found a message from an intelligent source--and they travel deep into space to meet it. Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan injects Contact, his prophetic adventure story, with scientific details that make it utterly believable. It is a Cold War era novel that parlays the nuclear paranoia of the time into exquisitely wrought tension among the various countries involved. Sagan meditates on science, religion, and government--the elements that define society--and looks to their impact on and role in the future. His ability to pack an exciting read with such rich content is an unusual talent that makes Contact a modern sci-fi classic. [via]

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  • Chapman, Janet: The Dangerous Protector
    The Dangerous Protector
    by Janet Chapman
    ISBN 0743486315 (0-7434-8631-5)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

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  • Harris, Charlaine: Dead Until Dark
    Dead Until Dark
    by Charlaine Harris
    ISBN 0754069966 (0-7540-6996-6)
    Hardcover, Wheeler Pub

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  • Deception Point
    by Dan Brown
    ISBN 0743490304 (0-7434-9030-4)
    Hardcover, Pocket Books

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    Penzler Pick, December 2001: In the world of page-turning thrillers, Dan Brown holds a special place in the hearts of many of us. After his first book, Digital Fortress, almost passed me by, he wrote Angels and Demons, which was probably one of the half-dozen most exciting thrillers of last year. It is a pleasure to report that his new book lives up to his reputation as a writer whose research and talent make his stories exciting, believable, and just plain unputdownable.

    The time is now and President Zachary Herney is facing a very tough reelection. His opponent, Senator Sedgwick Sexton, is a powerful man with powerful friends and a mission: to reduce NASA's spending and move space exploration into the private sector. He has numerous supporters, including many beyond the businesses who will profit from this because of the embarrassment of 1996, when the Clinton administration was informed by NASA that proof existed of life on other planets. That information turned out to be premature, if not incorrect. (This story is true; I repeat, Dan Brown's research is very, very good.) The embattled president is assured that a rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice will prove to have far-reaching implications on America's space program. The find, however, needs to be verified.

    Enter Rachel Sexton, a gister for the National Reconnaissance Office. Gisters reduce complex reports into single-page briefs, and in this case the president needs that confirmation before he broadcasts to the nation, probably ensuring his reelection. It's tricky because Rachel is the daughter of his opponent. Rachel is thrilled to be on the team traveling to the Arctic circle. She is a realist about her father's politics and has little respect for his stand on NASA, but Senator Sexton cannot help but have a problem with her involvement.

    Adventure, romance, murder, skullduggery, and nail-biting tension ensue. By the end of Deception Point, the reader will be much better informed about how our space program works and how our politicians react to new information. Bring on the next Dan Brown thriller! --Otto Penzler [via]

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  • Davies, Robertson: The Deptford Trilogy
    The Deptford Trilogy
    by Robertson Davies
    ISBN 0771593848 (0-7715-9384-8)
    Hardcover, Nelson Canada

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  • Double Whammy
    by Carl Hiaasen
    ISBN 0783816456 (0-7838-1645-6)
    Hardcover, G K Hall & Co

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    R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman's scam that's anything but sportsmanlike, there's a body floating in Coon Bog, Florida -- and a lot that's rotten in the murky waters of big-stakes, large-mouth bass tournaments. Here Decker will team up with a half-blind, half-mad hermit with an appetite for road kill; dare to kiss his ex-wife while she's in bed with her new husband; and face deadly TV evangelists, dangerously seductive women, and a pistol-toting redneck with a pit bull on his arm. And here his own life becomes part of the stakes. For while the "double whammy" is the lure, first prize is for the most ingenious murder. [via]

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  • Davidson, Maryjanice: Drop Dead, Gorgeous!
    Drop Dead, Gorgeous!
    by Maryjanice Davidson
    ISBN 0758212046 (0-7582-1204-6)
    Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp

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  • Ender's Game
    by Orson Scott Card
    ISBN 0765342294 (0-7653-4229-4)
    Softcover, Tor Books

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    In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

    Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Back on Earth, Peter and Valentine forge an intellectual alliance and attempt to change the course of history.

    This futuristic tale involves aliens, political discourse on the Internet, sophisticated computer games, and an orbiting battle station. Yet the reason it rings true for so many is that it is first and foremost a tale of humanity; a tale of a boy struggling to grow up into someone he can respect while living in an environment stripped of choices. Ender's Game is a must-read book for science fiction lovers, and a key conversion read for their friends who "don't read science fiction."

    Ender's Game won both the Hugo and the Nebula the year it came out. Writer Orson Scott Card followed up this honor with the first-time feat of winning both awards again the next year for the sequel, Speaker for the Dead. --Bonnie Bouman [via]

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  • Faerie Wars
    by Herbie Brennan
    ISBN 0765356740 (0-7653-5674-0)
    Softcover, Tor Books

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    Faerie Wars, by Herbie Brennan follows in the footsteps of Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl with its tale of fairy-folk and derring-do. But whereas Colfer's little people have a thoroughly modern edge throughout, Brennan comes at them from a slightly different angle in a highly original novel that weaves modern science with a good, old-fashioned fantasy story.

    Henry, an ordinary boy, is thrown into turmoil when his mother apparently has an affair with his father's secretary and it looks as if his hitherto safe, if a little dull, world is about to fall to pieces. To avoid the arguments and the tense silences he heads for the haven of Mr Fogarty's house to spend time with the old man whose passion lies in scientific experiments and the accompanying paraphernalia.

    Meanwhile, on an altogether different plane, Pyrgus Malvae, son of an emperor, has fallen out with his father and sets about making mischief. What he doesn't realise is that there are greater forces at work than his teenage tantrums, and not only his life, but that of his family's, is under serious threat. To save his life he transports, accidentally ending up in Mr Fogarty's back garden (where he appears as a tiny fairy--bizarre but true!). Before long, Pyrgus Malvae, Henry and Mr Fogarty are trapped in battle between distant worlds and dark forces, the result of which will change all their lives forever.

    The aforementioned Eoin Colfer reckons that Herbie Brennan is a master of mythology, science and fantasy. Indeed he is, and despite a few hiccups in the handling of Henry's situation which seem somehow ill at ease with the rest of the book, he pulls off his first major work of fiction with admirable poise in a pleasingly challenging fantasy for older readers. (Includes some strong language and subject matter). Recommend for ages 11 and over. --Susan Harrison [via]

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  • The Family Trade
    by Charles Stross
    ISBN 0765348217 (0-7653-4821-7)
    Softcover, Tor Books

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    A bold fantasy in the tradition of Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber, The Merchant Princes is a sweeping new series from the hottest new writer in science fiction!

    Miriam Beckstein is happy in her life. She's a successful reporter for a hi-tech magazine in Boston, making good money doing what she loves. When her researcher brings her iron-clad evidence of a money-laundering scheme, Miriam thinks she's found the story of the year. But when she takes it to her editor, she's fired on the spot and gets a death threat from the criminals she has uncovered.

    Before the day is over, she's received a locket left by the mother she never knew-the mother who was murdered when she was an infant. Within is a knotwork pattern, which has a hypnotic effect on her. Before she knows it, she's transported herself to a parallel Earth, a world where knights on horseback chase their prey with automatic weapons, and where world-skipping assassins lurk just on the other side of reality - a world where her true family runs things.

    The six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt from behind the scenes, a mixture of nobility and criminal conspirators whose power to walk between the worlds makes them rich in both. Braids of family loyalty and intermarriage provide a fragile guarantee of peace, but a recently-ended civil war has left the families shaken and suspicious.

    Taken in by her mother's people, she becomes the star of the story of the century-as Cinderella without a fairy godmother. As her mother's heir, Miriam is hailed as the prodigal countess Helge Thorold-Hjorth, and feted and feasted. Caught up in schemes and plots centuries in the making, Miriam is surrounded by unlikely allies, forbidden loves, lethal contraband, and, most dangerous of all, her family. Her unexpected return will supercede the claims of other clan members to her mother's fortune and power, and whoever killed her mother will be happy to see her dead, too.

    Behind all this lie deeper secrets still, which threaten everyone and everything she has ever known. Patterns of deception and interlocking lies, as intricate as the knotwork between the universes. But Miriam is no one's pawn, and is determined to conquer her new home on her own terms.

    Blending the creativity and humor of Roger Zelazny, the adventure of H. Beam Piper and Philip Jose Farmer, and the rigor and scope of a science-fiction writer on the grandest scale, Charles Stross has set a new standard for fantasy epics.
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  • Feed
    by M. T. Anderson
    ISBN 0763622591 (0-7636-2259-1)
    Softcover, Candlewick Pr

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    This brilliantly ironic satire is set in a future world where television and computers are connected directly into people's brains when they are babies. The result is a chillingly recognizable consumer society where empty-headed kids are driven by fashion and shopping and the avid pursuit of silly entertainment--even on trips to Mars and the moon--and by constant customized murmurs in their brains of encouragement to buy, buy, buy.

    Anderson gives us this world through the voice of a boy who, like everyone around him, is almost completely inarticulate, whose vocabulary, in a dead-on parody of the worst teenspeak, depends heavily on three words: "like," "thing," and the second most common English obscenity. He's even made this vapid kid a bit sympathetic, as a product of his society who dimly knows something is missing in his head. The details are bitterly funny--the idiotic but wildly popular sitcom called "Oh? Wow! Thing!", the girls who have to retire to the ladies room a couple of times an evening because hairstyles have changed, the hideous lesions on everyone that are not only accepted, but turned into a fashion statement. And the ultimate awfulness is that when we finally meet the boy's parents, they are just as inarticulate and empty-headed as he is, and their solution to their son's problem is to buy him an expensive car.

    Although there is a danger that at first teens may see the idea of brain-computers as cool, ultimately they will recognize this as a fascinating novel that says something important about their world. (Ages 14 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]

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  • The Fifth Elephant
    by Terry Pratchett
    ISBN 0783893078 (0-7838-9307-8)
    Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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  • A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small In Mooreland, Indiana
    by Haven Kimmel
    ISBN 0767915054 (0-7679-1505-4)
    Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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    When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar periodpeople helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.

    Laced with fine storytelling, sharp wit, dead-on observations, and moments of sheer joy, Haven Kimmel's straight-shooting portrait of her childhood gives us a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds Zippy. [via]

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  • The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
    by Stephen King
    ISBN 0754022390 (0-7540-2239-0)
    Softcover, Thorndike Pr

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    With a convincing mix of youthful optimism and world-weary resignation, reader Anne Heche adds resonance to this unabridged recording. Heche is especially effective as the 9-year-old heroine, Trisha McFarland, who makes a fateful decision during an afternoon hike with her dysfunctional family. "The paths had forked in a 'Y.' She would simply walk across the gap and rejoin the main trail. Piece of cake. There was no chance of getting lost." As one might suspect, there is every chance she'll get lost--or worse--and taking the shortcut turns out to be a very bad choice indeed. At times Heche's reading may be too measured, but her narration is generally quite good and her steady portrayal of a young girl lost renders this tale all the more frightening. (Running time: 6.5 hours, 6 cassettes) --George Laney [via]

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  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    ISBN 0783812221 (0-7838-1222-1)
    Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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  • Guilty Pleasures
    by Laurell K. Hamilton
    ISBN 0785776184 (0-7857-7618-4)
    Hardcover, Bt Bound

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    Anita Blake may be small and young, but vampires call her the Executioner. Anita is a necromancer and vampire hunter in a time when vampires are protected by law--as long as they don't get too nasty. Now someone's killing innocent vampires and Anita agrees--with a bit of vampiric arm-twisting--to help figure out who and why.

    Trust is a luxury Anita can't afford when her allies aren't human. The city's most powerful vampire, Nikolaos, is 1,000 years old and looks like a 10-year-old girl. The second most powerful vampire, Jean-Claude, is interested in more than just Anita's professional talents, but the feisty necromancer isn't playing along--yet. This popular series has a wild energy and humor, and some very appealing characters--both dead and alive. [via]

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  • Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
    by Alice Munro
    ISBN 0771065256 (0-7710-6525-6)
    Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart

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    Readers know what they are going to get when they pick up an unfamiliar Alice Munro collection, and yet almost every page carries a bounty of unexpected action, feeling, language, and detail. Her stories are always unique, blazing an invigorating originality out of her seemingly commonplace subjects. Each collection develops her oeuvre in increments, subtly expanding her range.

    Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is, of course, no exception. It is a fairly conservative collection of nine stories, none of which move far beyond Munro's favored settings: the tiny towns and burgeoning cities of southern Ontario and British Columbia. There are glimpses of youth here--in the title story, an epistolary prank by two teenage girls leads to a one-sided cross country elopement and, seemingly, a happy marriage, and in "Nettles," disrupted childhood affection fleetingly returns through a chance meeting--but most of these pieces are stories of aging women and men, confronting the twin travails of death and late love. As is always the case with Munro, their plots are too elegantly elaborate to summarize, and their unsentimental power is a given; baroque praise would be futile. Read these stories--it is the only way to really understand the miracles that Munro so regularly performs. --Jack Illingworth [via]

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  • Stross, Charles: The Hidden Family
    The Hidden Family
    by Charles Stross
    ISBN 0765352052 (0-7653-5205-2)
    Softcover, Tom Doherty Assoc Llc

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    A bold fantasy in the tradition of Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber, The Merchant Princes is a sweeping new series from the hottest new writer in science fiction!

    The six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt from behind the scenes, a mixture of nobility and criminal conspirators whose power to walk between their world and ours make them rich in both. Braids of family loyalty and intermarriage provide a fragile guarantee of peace, but a recently ended civil war has left the families shaken and suspicious.

    Miriam, a hip tech journalist form Boston, discovered her alternate-world relatives with explosive results that shook three worlds. Now, as the prodigal Countess Helge Thorold-Hyorth, she finds herself ensnared in schemes and plots centuries in the making. She is surrounded by unlikely allies, lethal contraband, and, most dangerous of all, her family. With her modern American attitudes, she's not sure she can fit in, or if she even wants to, but to stay alive, she really has no choice.

    To avoid a slippery slope down to an unmarked grave, Miriam must build a power-base of her own. She started applying modern business practices and scientific knowledge to a trade heretofore dominated by medieval mercantilists-with unexpected consequences for three different timelines, including the quasi-Victorian one exploited by the hidden family.

    Blending the creativity and humor of Roger Zelazny, the adventure of H. Beam Piper and Philip Jose Farmer, and the rigor and scope of a science-fiction writer on the grandest scale, Charles Stross has set a new standard for fantasy epics.

    Charles Stross is one of the big new SF writers of the 21st century, and the saga of The Merchant Princes is his most ambitious work yet.
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  • Hide in Plain Sight
    by Michele Albert
    ISBN 0743485033 (0-7434-8503-3)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

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    APPEARANCES ARE DECEIVING

    Fiona Kennedy can tell a forgery from the genuine article in a snap. Drop-dead-sexy Grif Laughton, however, is not so easy to read. He's clearly a masterpiece of the male variety -- and the attraction he sparks is definitely the real thing. But Grif is a man of secrets, and the potentially priceless manuscript he's asked her to appraise is just one of them.

    PASSIONS ARE DEADLY

    But someone is willing to kill for the manuscript, and Grif reveals that he's a mercenary, hired to protect Fiona. Is he really who he seems, or is he just using her as bait? On the run from an unknown enemy, Fiona gives in to her all-consuming need for the man who may be her one chance for survival -- or her final chapter. [via]

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  • Deveraux, Jude: Holly
    Holly
    by Jude Deveraux
    ISBN 0743479009 (0-7434-7900-9)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

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    A relentless campaign by phone, letter, and email has persuaded Hollander Latham's parents to purchase the home of her dreams: Spring Hill, a beautiful North Carolina plantation where Holly spent her memorable thirteenth summer. Now a successful architect, Holly is intent on reuniting with Spring Hill's neighbor and her love from that long-ago summer, wealthy heir Laurence Beaumont -- she dreams of working her way into Lorrie's heart while restoring his historic estate, Belle Chere. But as Christmas fast approaches, Nick Taggert -- a mysterious stranger who makes her laugh and tempts her with a surprising passion -- turns her plans upside down. One man can seduce her with fortune and privilege; the other can promise her the simple gift of love. And on a frost-covered Christmas night, Holly's choice will unmask astonishing truths and hidden dangers -- revelations that will forever change her charmed life and her vulnerable heart. [via]

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  • McGregor, Jon: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
    If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
    by Jon McGregor
    ISBN 0747558337 (0-7475-5833-7)
    Hardcover, Bloomsbury

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  • An Instance of the Fingerpost
    by Iain Pears
    ISBN 0783802803 (0-7838-0280-3)
    Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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  • Jazz
    by Toni Morrison
    ISBN 0785719857 (0-7857-1985-7)
    Hardcover, Bt Bound

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    Jazz embraces the vibrant music and lifestyle of 1920s Harlem, an urban renaissance of opportunity and glamour. A novel of murder, hard lives, and broken dreams, Jazz sways with a lyric medley of voices and human consciousness.

    Narrated by the author, Toni Morrison, this is an intense but gratifying three hours of tape. Background jazz music enhances the feel of '20s Harlem, a city that attracted thousands of black southerners hoping for better lives. Joe Trace and his wife Violet were part of this migration; madly in love with each other and the idea of this urban mecca, they "traindanced into the city." But like so many of the marriages in Morrison's novels, this union crumbles, and the dreams for a better life fade away. Joe finds another, a love "that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going."

    In Jazz, time ebbs and flows like human memory, traversing between recollections of the past and expectations for the future; likewise, jazz music is often wild and chaotic. Here Morrison once again exemplifies herself as both a superb writer and a masterful storyteller. [via]

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  • Jingle Bell Rock
    by Lori Foster, Alison Kent, Janelle Denison, Donna Kauffman, Nancy Warren, Susan Donovan
    ISBN 0758205694 (0-7582-0569-4)
    Softcover, Brava

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    With this fifth contemporary erotic anthology from Brava, fans of these bestselling anthologies will be able to unwrap a few Bad Boys of their own--just in time for the holidays. They're big, they're bad, and they're everywhere--Brava's national bestselling anthologies continue to delight devoted fans across the country, and the franchise that began with All Through the Night now brings a whole new meaning to the idea of Christmas ecstasy. Featuring a six-pack of top-notch, bestselling romance writers, Jingle Bell Rock, will be the next best thing to eggnog to celebrate Christmas cheer. Skip the mistletoe--you won't need it after you indulge in these six tempting tales of romance filled with the sort of naughty-but-oh-so-nice men who make the season so bright it's downright hot... [via]

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  • Jinx High: A Diana Tregarde Investigation
    by Mercedes Lackey
    ISBN 0765313197 (0-7653-1319-7)
    Softcover, St Martins Pr

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    Fay Harper looks like any other teenage girl--any other Queen Bee, that is.  She's blond, and beautiful, and very, very popular--the kind of popular that attracts boys like honey.  Fay and her gang take a lot of risks, but so far they've managed to get away with everything.  It's as if they are magically protected.  
    Summoned to Tulsa by an old friend whose son has fallen in with Fay's crowd, Diana Tregarde, practicing witch and successful romance novelist, quickly finds herself in hot water.  The new girl at school, Monica Carlin, has come under sorcerous attack, but Diana cannot identify, or stop, the power-wielder.  To make matters worse, there is an ancient being sleeping under Tulsa, a being who might be woken by the magic battles taking place in the city.  What will happen then, even Diana cannot predict.
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  • Foster, Lori: Just a Hint: Clint
    Just a Hint: Clint
    by Lori Foster
    ISBN 0758203403 (0-7582-0340-3)
    Softcover, Brava

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  • Lovelace, Merline: The Last Bullet
    The Last Bullet
    by Merline Lovelace
    ISBN 0778321819 (0-7783-2181-9)
    Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited

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  • Leaving Normal
    by Stef Ann Holm
    ISBN 077832222X (0-7783-2222-X)
    Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited

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    Shake it up a little!

    At long last Natalie Goodwin's life is running just the way she wants it. Her new florist shop is all set for a grand opening, and her daughter is enjoying her first semester in college. The house is clean, the bills are paid and cooking dinner every night is now an option. Natalie admits she's just a teeny bit lonely, but recent dating experiences have left her convinced that Mr. Right does not live in Boise, Idaho.

    But life has a big surprise for Natalie and he lives right across the street! Never in her wildest dreams did she think she could fall for a man nine years her junior, but then she has never met a man like firefighter Tony Cruz. He turns her well-ordered life upside down, and pretty soon things go from simmering to scalding. Just when the sparks begin to turn into a three-alarm blaze Natalie is caught unawares again -- Tony wants her and a child of his own.

    A baby? At forty-three? Natalie is definitely all shook up. [via]

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  • A Light in the Window
    by Jan Karon
    ISBN 074592803X (0-7459-2803-X)
    Softcover, Chariot Victor Pub

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    A Light in the Window is the second installment in this enormously popular series about a small-town rector, Father Tim, and the heartwarming cast of characters surrounding him. This time Father Tim, a lifelong bachelor, finds his heart distracted by his free-spirited neighbor Cynthia, but his stomach and the rectory cash box are distracted by Edith, a wealthy widow who is wooing the rector with love potion casseroles. At every turn, including when a brooding Irish cousin decides to move in, Father Tim must decide whether he will practice what he preaches.

    Fans of the series say they long to buy real estate in Mitford, just so they can live next door to these funny and endearing characters and feel the embrace of such a loving community. But what author Jan Karon probably knows, and many readers are starting to figure out, is that the integrity and solid Christian values that these characters possess can be found in just about every neighborhood, and with inspiration like this book, anyone can build their own Mitford community. --Gail Hudson [via]

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  • Maskerade
    by Terry Pratchett
    ISBN 0753151561 (0-7531-5156-1)
    Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books

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    There are strange goings-on at the Opera House in Ankh-Morpork. A ghost in a white mask is murdering, well, quite a lot of people, and two witches (it really isn't wise to call them "meddling, interfering old baggages"), or perhaps three, take a hand in unraveling the mystery. Fans of the popular Discworld will be happy to see some old friends again in Maskerade, the 18th novel in the series. --Blaise Selby [via]

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  • Mists of Avalon
    by Marion Zimmer Bradley
    ISBN 0785787135 (0-7857-8713-5)
    Hardcover, Bt Bound

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    Even readers who don't normally enjoy Arthurian legends will love this version, a retelling from the point of view of the women behind the throne. Morgaine (more commonly known as Morgan Le Fay) and Gwenhwyfar (a Welsh spelling of Guinevere) struggle for power, using Arthur as a way to score points and promote their respective worldviews. The Mists of Avalon's Camelot politics and intrigue take place at a time when Christianity is taking over the island-nation of Britain; Christianity vs. Faery, and God vs. Goddess are dominant themes.

    Young and old alike will enjoy this magical Arthurian reinvention by science fiction and fantasy veteran Marion Zimmer Bradley. --Bonnie Bouman [via]

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  • Mr. Maybe
    by Jane Green
    ISBN 0767905202 (0-7679-0520-2)
    Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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    To Libby Mason, Mr. Right has always meant Mr. Rich. A twenty seven-year-old publicist, she's barely able to afford her fashionable and fabulous lifestyle and often has to foot the bill for dates with Struggling Writer Nick, a sexy but perpetually strapped-for-cash guy she's dating (no commitments - really). So when Ed, Britain's wealthiest but stodgiest bachelor, enters the picture, her idea of the fairy tale romance is turned on it's head. Mr. Maybe is the tale of her heartfelt but hilarious deliberation, irresistibly chronicled by bestselling author Jane Green. On one hand, Nick makes up for his low bank-account balance by his performance in the sack, or in the bathtub, as the case may be. But life with him means little more than nightly trips to the bar, a dark and grungy apartment, and plenty of dull political tirades to boot. But those blue eyes, and that tender heart...On the other hand, there's Ed, whose luxurious house and gargantuan bank account are quite tempting to the starving Libby. But his unsavory mustache and bumbling ways make Libby wonder if the platinum AMEX and unlimited "retail therapy" are worth it. He may have fallen in love with her at first sight, but nothing seems to solve his lackluster performance in the sack - even speed reading The Joy of Sex. When the diamond shopping commences, Libby is forced to realize that the time for "maybe" is up. Taking romantic comedy to a hip, sparkling new level, Mr. Maybe is a classic tale of what happens to one girl when her heart and her head aren't looking for the same thing. With a laugh and minute and a heroine whose struggles in the dating jungle will remind you of your own, Mr. Maybe is a story that all will leave you smitten. [via]

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  • Out of Control
    by Shannon McKenna
    ISBN 0758205635 (0-7582-0563-5)
    Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp

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    Davy McCloud is a disillusioned private investigator who has had to learn the hard way that, when it comes to women, it's usually not a good idea to follow blind impulses. Much better to play it safe and keep things simple, calm, and free of any messy complications. But when the luscious, mysterious new exercise instructor Margot Vetter shows up at the gym next door, with her endless curves on eye-popping display in neon-coloured spandex, Davy is sorely tempted to make an exception-just this once. Problem is, the background check that he runs on Margot reveals that she's hiding a few secrets-secrets of the dark and deadly kind. Margot is at the end of her rope. As if it weren't enough to be broke, desperate, and on the run after being framed for a murder, she's now being terrorized bya malevolent stalker. She can't go to the police, of course. But she has to talk to someone or go crazy. So she turns to the buff, impossibly gorgeous investigator and kung fu expert Davy McCloud. After all, he looks like nothing on earth could possibly intimidate him. And anyway, she's been looking for an excuse to get a good look at him, up close and personal. Food for fantasy-because the nights are awfully long when a girl is scared to go to sleep. What Margot doesn't count on is Davy's relentless intensity-not to mention his irresistible magnetism. What Davy doesn't count on is the possessive hunger Margot sparks in his soul, a hunger that instantly sweeps away all of his hard-earned professional cool. As Margot's past threatens to catch up with her, Davy feels himself being dragged into a storm of danger. If they are to survive, the two must come together, face their fears, and finally discover what it really means to love and trust another person. [via]

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  • Pearl Moon
    by Katherine Stone
    ISBN 0778321851 (0-7783-2185-1)
    Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited

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    Publishers Weekly called it a "vivid narrative" with "glamorous settings." Booklist said it's a "can't-miss combination of multigenerational romance and international suspense, financial rivalry and family secrets." Now updated in this tenth-anniversary edition, Pearl Moon is the book thousands of readers have been asking for!

    It's the year before Hong Kong's reversion to Chinese control -- a year of danger, betrayal . . . and romance. Allison Whitaker and Maylene Kwan, two sisters who don't know of each other's existence, meet there for the first time. They also meet two extraordinary men: the aristocratic and powerful James Drake, developer of luxury hotels, with whom Allison falls in love, and Sam Coulter, the Texan builder who captures Maylene's heart. [via]

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  • Perrin, Kayla: Perfect for the Beach
    Perfect for the Beach
    by Kayla Perrin, Lori Foster, Erin McCarthy
    ISBN 0758207735 (0-7582-0773-5)
    Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation

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  • Perfect for the Beach: Some Like It Hot & Blue Crush & My Thief & Hot and Bothered & Murphy's Law
    by Lori Foster, Janelle Denison, Kayla Perrin, Maryjanice Davidson, Erin McCarthy, Morgan Leigh
    ISBN 0758207727 (0-7582-0772-7)
    Softcover, Brava

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  • Holm, Stef Ann: Pink Moon
    Pink Moon
    by Stef Ann Holm
    ISBN 0778320863 (0-7783-2086-3)
    Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited

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  • The Promise
    by Chaim Potok
    ISBN 0783802560 (0-7838-0256-0)
    Hardcover, G K Hall & Co

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  • Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike
    ISBN 0783818238 (0-7838-1823-8)
    Hardcover, G K Hall & Co

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    It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one-time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job. With no way to fix things, he resolves to flee from his family and his home in Pennsylvania, beginning a thousand-mile journey that he hopes will free him from his mediocre life. Because, as he knows only too well, 'after you've been first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate'. [via]

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  • Monroe, Lucy: The Real Deal
    The Real Deal
    by Lucy Monroe
    ISBN 075820860X (0-7582-0860-X)
    Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp

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  • Really Unusual Bad Boys
    by Maryjanice Davidson
    ISBN 075820891X (0-7582-0891-X)
    Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp

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    Meet Damon, Maltese, and Shakar - three noble brothers from an enchanted kingdom where wooing and pleasuring is practically a royal commandment. They're hot. Irresistible. And just a little different. But what woman doesn't like a guy with a few surprises? One minute, Detective Lois Commoner is popping pain pills for her bum knee in her apartment; the next, she's in a strange land with a magically delicious naked man named Prince Damon calling her beautiful and offering to show her his brand of toe-curling hospitality. Okay the Questions? Well, may be one or two. Like, whose idea was the no-clothes rule? How does he do that thing - yes, that thing? How does a girl end up here? And how can she ever possibly go? Lt. Anne Sanger joined the W.A.C.s so she could see the world and meet someone, but perhaps she should have been more specific. "See the world" meant Europe. "Meet someone" meant a nice soldier from a far in Boise, not a feral, well-built, rakish man in a bathtub claiming he has wished her to be his mate. She has to be dreaming. And if she's just dreaming, it's perfectly okay to let Prince Maltese kiss her there...and there...and, oh, there. Now, as long as no one wakes her up, everything should be just fine...Rica Callanbra is used to odd things happening, but not usually sweet, godlike-hunky-men-falling-from-the-sky kinds of things. Still, a girl takes what she can get, and if Prince Shakar is it, holy moley, is she in for heaven. The guy loves everything about her world - swimming holes, arm wrestling, skinny dipping...wet, long kisses and smooth caresses and, um yeah, everything. Too bad he has to go back home, and be fought over by swooning, clawing females who all want to be his mate. Then again if you can't beat 'em join 'em. [via]

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  • Saint Maybe
    by Anne Tyler
    ISBN 0785727078 (0-7857-2707-8)
    Hardcover, Bt Bound

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    Tyler makes things look so easy that she never gets enough credit, yet she portrays everyday Americans with such humor, grace and, ultimately, emotional force that her books are always deeply satisfying. In Saint Maybe her protagonist Ian Bedloe, stricken with guilt over the death of his older brother, raises three children unrelated to him by blood. He is strengthened in this Herculean task by the storefront Church of the Second Chance, to which he devotes himself with equal fervor. Someone once said all great writers are comic writers. Among living Americans, Tyler is exhibit A. [via]

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  • Sea of Silver Light
    by Tad Williams
    ISBN 0756400309 (0-7564-0030-9)
    Softcover, Daw Books

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    With Sea of Silver Light, Tad Williams completes his massive Otherland quartet, one of SF's more intriguing explorations of the eroding boundaries of the human and the nonhuman, the living and the dead. Otherland is a sequence that contains many secrets, and Williams plays fair by unpacking all of them in the final book. A group of adventurers searching for a cure for comatose children find themselves trapped in a sequence of virtual worlds, the only opponents of a conspiracy of the rich to live forever in a dream. Now, they are forced to make an uneasy alliance with their only surviving former enemy against his treacherous sidekick Johnny Wulgaru, a serial killer with a chance to play God forever.

    Williams manages a vast cast of emotionally involving characters with considerable panache, but the real strength of the book is its endlessly questing intelligence; it is, among other things, an enquiry into the nature of storytelling as a way for human beings to give structure to their perceptions of the universe around them. It is as story that Sea of Silver Light ultimately works so well--involving us in the grueling descent of a vast mountain, the siege of an underground fortress, gun battles in a nightmare Wild West. Williams never neglects to tell us how things feel. He efficiently ties up every plot strand and convincingly reveals every secret in this large, complex plot. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]

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  • Williams, Tad: Shadowmarch
    Shadowmarch
    by Tad Williams
    ISBN 0756402700 (0-7564-0270-0)
    Softcover, Daw Books

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    The Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series established Tad Williams's preeminence in fantasy. Now, after an absence of more than a decade, the New York Times bestselling author has returned to high fantasy with his Shadowmarch trilogy. Exciting, ambitious, intricate, and insightful, Shadowmarch: Volume 1 demonstrates that Williams is still America's best high fantasist.

    Shadowmarch: Volume 1 introduces a world conquered by humans, who have driven the Qar, or fairy folk, into the far north. There, the Qar hide behind the "Shadowline," a mysterious veil of perpetual mist, which drives mad any human who dares enter it. Bordering that mist and named for it is Shadowmarch, the northernmost human kingdom.

    Shadowmarch has lately fallen on hard times. Its king has been captured by a rival kingdom, the regent has been mysteriously slain, and the new regents are callow fifteen-year-olds. Moody, crippled Prince Barrick is uninterested in their responsibilities and haunted by eerie dreams. His twin, Princess Briony, takes their new duties seriously, but is hot-tempered and headstrong. How can they defeat the greatest threats in Shadowmarch history? Their nobles plot to overthrow them--and the plotters may include their pregnant stepmother, seeking the throne for her own child. The expanding empire of Xis has sent its agents into Shadowmarch. And, for the first time since it appeared centuries ago, the Shadowline has starting moving. As the maddening mist spreads south over Shadowmarch, it does not quite hide the powerful, uncanny, and vengeful Qar army of invasion... --Cynthia Ward [via]

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  • The Shop on Blossom Street
    by Debbie Macomber
    ISBN 0778321606 (0-7783-2160-6)
    Softcover, Mira Books

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    Lynn Hoffman owns a shop on Blossom Street called The Good Yarn--a shop that represents her dream of a new beginning, a life free from the cancer that has ravaged her twice. But the shop also means something to the women who come to take knitting classes and who learn from Lynn's first lesson--how to knit a baby blanket. In her signature warm and compelling style, Debbie Macomber once again tells the story behind the significant lives of women searching for meaning in a small town.. [via]

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  • Smilla's Sense of Snow
    by Peter Hoeg
    ISBN 0770426182 (0-7704-2618-2)
    Softcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited

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    In this international bestseller, Peter Høeg successfully combines the pleasures of literary fiction with those of the thriller. Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Her childhood in Greenland gives her an appreciation for the complex structures of snow, and when she notices that the boy's footprints show he ran to his death, she decides to find out who was chasing him. As she attempts to solve the mystery, she uncovers a series of conspiracies and cover-ups and quickly realizes that she can trust nobody. Her investigation takes her from the streets of Copenhagen to an icebound island off the coast of Greenland. What she finds there has implications far beyond the death of a single child. The unusual setting, gripping plot, and compelling central character add up to one of the most fascinating and literate thrillers of recent years. [via]

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  • Huff, Tanya: Smoke And Shadows
    Smoke And Shadows
    by Tanya Huff
    ISBN 0756402638 (0-7564-0263-8)
    Softcover, Daw Books

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  • Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
    by Cory Doctorow
    ISBN 0765312808 (0-7653-1280-8)
    Softcover, St Martins Pr

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    With Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and Eastern Standard Tribe, Cory Doctorow established himself as one of the leading voices of next-generation SF: inventive, optimistic, and comfortable with the sheer strangeness of tomorrow. Now Doctorow returns with a novel of wrenching oddity, heartfelt technological vision, and human pity set on the streets of Toronto today.

    Alan is a middle-aged entrepeneur in contemporary Toronto, who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in the bohemian neighborhood of Kensington. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wings--wings, moreover, which grow back after each attempt to cut them off.

    Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain; his mother is a washing machine; and among his brothers are a set of Russian nesting dolls.

    Now two of the three nesting dolls, Edward and Frederick, are on his doorstep--well on their way to starvation, because their innermost member, George, has vanished. It appears that yet another brother, Davey, who Alan and his other siblings killed years ago, may have returned...bent on revenge.

    Under such circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to involve himself with a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles of hardware from parts scavenged from the city's dumpsters. But Alan's past won't leave him alone--and Davey is only one of the powers gunning for him and all his friends.

    Wildly imaginative, constantly whipsawing us between the preposterous, the amazing, and the deeply felt, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is unlike any novel you have ever read.
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  • Standing in the Shadows
    by Shannon McKenna
    ISBN 0758204531 (0-7582-0453-1)
    Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp

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    From the national bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors comes a compelling new erotic thriller. In Behind Closed Doors, which Lori Foster called "an erotic thriller you cannot miss, " Shannon McKenna penned a dazzling tale of obsession and desire. Now, the first author to introduce romantic suspense to the Brava line is back with her highly-anticipated new novel, Standing in the Shadows. This is the sequel to Behind Closed Doors and picks up where that book left off - same villain, new hero. Ex-undercover FBI agent Connor McCloud has been marked by betrayal, scarred in body and soul. He was betrayed by Ed Riggs, trusted colleague and friend, losing his partner and almost his life in the process. It cost him everything he had to flush out the traitor and bring him to justice, along with the vicious madman Kurt Novak who corrupted and blackmailed Ed. Now fate has betrayed Connor too. Riggs's shy, lovely, dark-haired daughter Erin is the woman that Connor has been seeing in his dreams for years. The storm of violence that ensued from fulfilling his duty has put her beyond his reach, but it hasn't abated the dull ache of wanting that torments and depresses him. Things go from bad to worse when Novak's fabulous wealth and underworld connections spring him from his cage, for both Erin and Connor have been marked for revenge. Connor will protect her with everything he has left, whether she wants it or not, whether she hates him or not--but he can't hide the fire she kindles inside him, no matter how desperately he tries. [via]

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  • Shields, Carol: The Stone Diaries
    The Stone Diaries
    by Carol Shields
    ISBN 0745131832 (0-7451-3183-2)
    Softcover, Thorndike Pr

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    The Stone Diaries was a prizewinner among prizewinners for Canadian novelist Carol Shields, garnering her the Governor General's Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. In this fictional autobiography of eightysomething Daisy Goodwill, Shields includes a variety of other documents and perspectives--letters that Daisy received over the years, a list of her bridal trousseau, an occasional reminiscence by a son, daughter, or family friend, an objective third-person description of a house, and a wonderful collection of photos that supposedly come from the Goodwill family--which give us the sense that this is more than just fiction. Here we have a rare glimpse into the nooks and crannies of an ordinary life as we watch Daisy cope with love, marriage, children, gardening, old age, and death. The book serves as a diary of the last century as well, ripe with details that make readers feel they're witnessing the passage of time. Shields renders with loving care, genuine affection, and acute insight the world Daisy Goodwill makes her own. The Stone Diaries lingers in the memory, an extraordinary achievement by an extraordinary writer. --Jeffrey Canton [via]

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  • Wiggs, Susan: Summer at Willow Lake
    Summer at Willow Lake
    by Susan Wiggs
    ISBN 0778323250 (0-7783-2325-0)
    Softcover, Mira Books

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  • Rice, Anne: The Tale of the Body Thief
    The Tale of the Body Thief
    by Anne Rice
    ISBN 0785727884 (0-7857-2788-4)
    Hardcover, Bt Bound

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  • Tears of the Giraffe
    by R. A. McCall Smith, Alexander McCall Smith
    ISBN 0748662731 (0-7486-6273-1)
    Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc

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  • O'Brien, Tim: Tomcat in Love
    Tomcat in Love
    by Tim O'Brien
    ISBN 0767902041 (0-7679-0204-1)
    Softcover, Broadway Books

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  • Clamp, Cathy: Touch of Evil
    Touch of Evil
    by Cathy Clamp
    ISBN 0765354004 (0-7653-5400-4)
    Softcover, Tor Books

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  • Under Cover
    by Maryjanice Davidson
    ISBN 0758206461 (0-7582-0646-1)
    Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp

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    Once upon a time, New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster ran a contest on her Web site (www.lorifoster.com) to find the hottest unpublished romance authors just waiting for that glass slipper. Now, it's your turn to get lucky and have a ball with one of the freshest, sexiest new voices in erotic romance... [via]

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  • Fischer, Tibor: Under the Frog
    Under the Frog
    by Tibor Fischer
    ISBN 0748661336 (0-7486-6133-6)
    Hardcover, Polygon

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  • Foster, Lori: Unexpected
    Unexpected
    by Lori Foster
    ISBN 0758205481 (0-7582-0548-1)
    Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp

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    Eli Conners expected hired mercenary Ray Vereker to be a tank of a guy with forty tattoos - not a gorgeous creature with considerable karate skills. While Eli certainly needs Ray's help, he thinks she could use a little of what he's offering...a down-and-dirty, body-scorching passion of the forever kind. Ray's as good as any man when it comes to storming enemy compounds and loading an AK-47, but Eli's strong sensuality and gentle touch leave her shaken and stirred. And really, who could blame a girl for succumbing to mind-blowing temptation in the steamy jungle? But now it's back to business. If only Ray wasn't feeling hot, bothered, dizzy, and just a little bit, well, queasy. The last thing either of these unlikely lovers expects is to be expecting. Suddenly, Ray's precise, no-nonsense mission is veering wildly off course, derailed by raging hormones, out-of-control desire, and a delirious love that is completely unexpected. [via]

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  • When Good Things Happen to Bad Boys
    by Lori Foster, Erin McCarthy, Helenkay Dimon
    ISBN 0758209339 (0-7582-0933-9)
    Softcover, Brava

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    "Playing Doctor" is written by Lori Foster. Attitude makes a huge difference in bed. It could be Axel Dean's motto. The sexy physician likes his women with sensual moxie, and Libby Preston definitely seems to fit that bill. There's that naughty grin. That hot bod. Her eager kisses and cheeky insults. Her...admitted virginity. Whoa. Okay, cue cold shower. Axel may not be an honorable man, but he has his limits. Except Libby won't take no for an answer. She's determined to have someone show her what she's been missing, and suddenly, Axel can't bear to think of Libby playing doctor with anyone else..."Lady Of The Lake" is written by Erin McCarthy. Pro baseball player Dylan Diaz is pretty sure he's going to hell. When you rescue a drowning woman from a lake your first thought should be, "Are you okay?" not, "Can I make mad, passionate love to you?" But the minute sputtering kindergarten teacher Violet Caruthers is on Dylan's boat, that's all he can think about. Maybe it's the potent combo of a nun's personality inside a stripper's body. Maybe it's the way she drives him crazy with desire and laughter. Or maybe, Dylan's finally found what's been missing in his life, and he's not about to let go..."Hardhats And Silk Stockings" is written by HelenKay Dimon. Hannah Bridges is the most infuriating woman architect Whit Thomas has ever met - and the sexiest. If he could just get the tough contractor to stop proving herself at very turn, they might have time to discuss more important things, like his hands on her...blue prints. What Hannah needs is a night of pure bliss that's all about her: no regrets, no control, no limits. Now, in a private room where pleasure is the only goal, Hannah is about to receive a delicious education in total ecstasy...Join three of today's hottest romance authors for a trio of sinfully sexy stories where good things come in deliciously bad boy packages... [via]

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  • Garvey, Amy: Wicked Women Whodunit
    Wicked Women Whodunit
    by Amy Garvey, Nancy J. Cohen, Maryjanice Davidson, Jennifer Apodaca
    ISBN 0758210264 (0-7582-1026-4)
    Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp

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  • Wilderness Tips
    by Atwood, Margaret Atwood
    ISBN 0771008198 (0-7710-0819-8)
    Hardcover, Random House Inc

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  • Wiggs, Susan: The Winter Lodge
    The Winter Lodge
    by Susan Wiggs
    ISBN 0778324141 (0-7783-2414-1)
    Softcover, Mira Books

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  • Xenocide
    by Orson Scott Card
    ISBN 0785716343 (0-7857-1634-3)
    Hardcover, Bt Bound

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    Orson Scott Card's Xenocide is a space opera with verve. In this continuation of Ender Wiggin's story, the Starways Congress has sent a fleet to immolate the rebellious planet of Lusitania, home to the alien race of pequeninos, and home to Ender Wiggin and his family. Concealed on Lusitania is the only remaining Hive Queen, who holds a secret that may save or destroy humanity throughout the galaxy. Familiar characters from the previous novels continue to grapple with religious conflicts and family squabbles while inventing faster-than-light travel and miraculous virus treatments. Throw into the mix an entire planet of mad geniuses and a self-aware computer who wants to be a martyr, and it's hard to guess who will topple the first domino. Due to the densely woven and melodramatic nature of the story, newcomers to Ender's tale will want to start reading this series with the first books, Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. --Brooks Peck [via]

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